The black death transformed : disease and culture in early Renaissance Europe
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The black death transformed : disease and culture in early Renaissance Europe
- Publication date
- 2002
- Topics
- British & Irish history: c 1000 to c 1500, European history: c 500 to c 1500, History of medicine, Social history, c 1000 CE to c 1500, History: World, History, History - General History, British Isles, Europe, Health Care Delivery, Medieval, World - General, History / Medieval, Plague, Virus Diseases, Black Death, Virus diseases, Pest (ziekte), Epidemieën, Renaissance, Cultuurverandering, Kunst, Medizin, Pest, Kontroverse, Kultur
- Publisher
- London : Arnold ; New York : Co-published in the USA by Oxford University Press
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- internetarchivebooks; printdisabled
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- Internet Archive
- Language
- English
- Item Size
- 1,010.3M
Includes bibliographical references (p. [280]-301) and index
"The Black Death in Europe, from its arrival in 1347-52 through successive waves into the early modern period, has been seriously misunderstood. It is clear from the compelling evidence presented in this revolutionary account that the Black Death was almost any disease other than the rat-based bubonic plague whose bacillus was discovered in 1894. Since the late nineteenth century, the rat and flea have stood wrongly accused as the agents of transmission and historians and scientists have uncritically imposed the epidemiology of modern plague on the past." "Unshackled from this misconception, The Black Death Transformed turns to its subject afresh, using sources spread across a huge geographical tract, from Lisbon to Uzbekistan, Sicily to Scotland: more than 40,000 death documents (from last wills and testaments to the earliest surviving burial records), over 400 chronicles, 250 plague tracts, 50 saints' lives, merchants' letters and more. These sources confirm the terror of medieval plague, the rapidity of its spread (unlike modern plague), and the utter despondency left in the wake of its first strike. But they also point to crucial differences between medieval and modern plague, none more significant than the ability of humans to acquire natural immunity to the former but not the latter."--Jacket
"The Black Death in Europe, from its arrival in 1347-52 through successive waves into the early modern period, has been seriously misunderstood. It is clear from the compelling evidence presented in this revolutionary account that the Black Death was almost any disease other than the rat-based bubonic plague whose bacillus was discovered in 1894. Since the late nineteenth century, the rat and flea have stood wrongly accused as the agents of transmission and historians and scientists have uncritically imposed the epidemiology of modern plague on the past." "Unshackled from this misconception, The Black Death Transformed turns to its subject afresh, using sources spread across a huge geographical tract, from Lisbon to Uzbekistan, Sicily to Scotland: more than 40,000 death documents (from last wills and testaments to the earliest surviving burial records), over 400 chronicles, 250 plague tracts, 50 saints' lives, merchants' letters and more. These sources confirm the terror of medieval plague, the rapidity of its spread (unlike modern plague), and the utter despondency left in the wake of its first strike. But they also point to crucial differences between medieval and modern plague, none more significant than the ability of humans to acquire natural immunity to the former but not the latter."--Jacket
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